Armed Conflict Quotes

Military intervention is to be considered when all else fails.

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.

The only way a revolution can triumph is through the force of arms.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

When a people consider themselves compelled by circumstances or by oppression, to appeal to arms and resort to their natural rights, they necessarily submit their cause to the great tribunal of public opinion.

No people in the world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed must being in blood, whatever may answer afterward.

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war, and how he intends to conduct it.

The American Civil War was the wrangling of two armed mobs.

War is merely a continuation of politics.

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

Conflict with our allies in a war is terrible. But the only thing worse is fighting a war without allies.

War is politics by other means.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Tell the terrorists that we will not give in to your demands. We insist you free the hostages. If you do not do so peacefully, we are ready to use force…. The only ‘deal’ we are prepared to do with you is this: If you surrender without a fight, you will stay alive.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, and other military chieftains, have by force of arms, overthrown the federal institutions of Mexico, and dissolved the social compact which existed between Texas and the other members of the Mexican Confederacy

We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?

The French colonialists must know that the Vietnamese people do not want bloodshed, that they love peace. But should they have to sacrifice millions of combatants, and fight for many years to defend the independence of their country and keep their children free, then they will do it. The resistance is sure to win.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.